Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts are sweet and warm, non-toxic, and have the functions of "invigorating qi and strengthening spleen, thickening stomach and intestines, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding".
Raw chestnuts or cooked chestnuts can be used to treat soreness of waist and legs, frequent micturition, nausea, bloody stool, chronic lymphadenitis, chronic diarrhea caused by deficiency of cervical lymph nodes and spleen and stomach, and long-term infertility caused by kidney deficiency. Burning air-dried chestnut shells into charcoal, grinding into powder, adding honey and washing with water can cure internal hemorrhoid bleeding.
Some Chinese medicine practitioners also use chestnut shells, Prunella vulgaris and Salvia miltiorrhiza to treat acute cervical lymphadenitis and goiter. Its nourishing effect on human body is comparable to that of ginseng, astragalus and angelica. Chestnuts are sweet in nature and enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, and have the effects of nourishing stomach, strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney, strengthening waist and tendons, promoting blood circulation, stopping bleeding and reducing swelling. It is suitable for chronic diarrhea, traumatic fracture, blood stasis, swelling and pain, skin sores, and muscle and bone pain caused by kidney deficiency, lumbocrural paralysis, dysuria, and spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
Unsaturated fatty acids and multivitamins contained in chestnuts have the function of resisting hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
Medicinal use of chestnut-medically speaking, chestnut fruit is a good product for tonifying kidney, which has the functions of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, stopping diarrhea and relieving cough.
The medicinal value of chestnuts, what diseases can chestnuts treat? Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly aimed at chestnut, which has the effects of tonifying kidney and spleen, strengthening body and bones, benefiting stomach and calming liver. The medicinal value of chestnuts is really high. However, chestnuts should not be eaten more. It is good to eat some properly.